{"id":2049,"slug":"gore-orphanage-site-vermilion-ohio","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Gore is the misnamed — the 'Light of Hope' that's the orphanage's real, the 'survey error' that's the road's origin. The 'no fire' is the debunked — the 'closed 1916' that's the end's plain, the 'kids relocated' that's the fate's mundane. The 'legend burned' is the made — the 'chained beds' that's the tale's add, the 'screams' that's the haunt's sound.","The 'three merged' is the woven — the 'orphanage mansion' that's the stories' count, the 'Swift's Hollow' that's the valley's name. The '500 contacts' is the policed — the 'violators' that's the teens' count, the 'road closed' that's the Halloween's answer. Gore is the fictioned — the 'entirely false' that's the fire's truth, the 'still heard' that's the cries' report.","The file keeps Gore: the misnamed road, the debunked fire, the merged tales, and the policed Halloween.","Gore Orphanage is the archive's Ohio file — the legend that outlived the truth."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Gore Orphanage is the archive's Ohio file — the orphanage that never burned.","A road keeps its name — the file's suggestion being that Gore's hold is the fictional: the 'Light of Hope' that's the real name, the 'survey error' that's the gore's origin, and the 'screams' that's the legend's sound."]}],"name":"Gore Orphanage site","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_SITE","type_label":"Historic Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","URBAN_LEGEND","LOCAL_FOLKLORE"],"groups":["dark-history","historic-sites","legends"],"desc":"Orphanage-fire legend that outlived the institution itself.","full_desc":"A historic site in Vermilion, Ohio, Gore Orphanage site is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Orphanage-fire legend that outlived the institution itself. The archive files it under urban legend, dark history and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is gone; what remains is the record and the ground it stood on.","address":null,"city":"Vermilion","county":null,"state":"Ohio","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":41.408005,"lon":-82.317254,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"DEMOLISHED","access":"PRIVATE","access_notes":"Private property; the legend persists at the roadside only.","ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":1916,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"New record from encyclopedia/official-source pass; VERIFY task auto-queued for primary-source corroboration.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":1273,"type":"CRYING","description":"Legend describes children screaming in the fire and phantom cries in the hollow. The reports at Gore Orphanage site are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. Digital folklore: the retellings are documented, the original event less so. Sources including 'Gore Orphanage' keep the claim in circulation. It's the sort of report that survives precisely because it asks you to listen, not look.","evidence":"INTERNET_RUMOR","evidence_label":"Internet rumor","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":"No fire killed the children; the orphanage simply closed.","source":{"name":"Gore Orphanage","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_Orphanage","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The Light of Hope Orphanage operated until 1916; the mass-death fire of legend never occurred. Gore Orphanage site's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. Sources including 'Gore Orphanage' carry the record. The date is part of the site's documented spine.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"1916","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Gore Orphanage","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_Orphanage","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Private property; not open to the public. View only from public rights-of-way where legal.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Gore Orphanage","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_Orphanage","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}